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Wildfires in Serowe

Serowe, Botswana, has had 44 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 176,014 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 45).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Extreme 36° · 12 % · 50 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 31° · 29 % · 49 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 33° · 15 % · 43 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 35° · 12 % · 36 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 36° · 14 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 17 % · 49 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 33° · 18 % · 45 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Extreme 31° · 22 % · 47 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

176,014
hectares burned
5.7 %
of its area
44
fires
31,004
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Serowe

  1. 12,940 ha Serowe fire, 30 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 12,908 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 3,713 ha Serowe fire, 8 August 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,681 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 3,178 ha Serowe fire, 5 August 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,179 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 6,154 ha Serowe fire, March 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,109 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 2,103 ha Serowe fire, 30 November 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,087 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 1,829 ha Serowe fire, 27 November 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,219 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 2,953 ha Serowe fire, 11 November 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,935 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 3,853 ha Serowe fire, October 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 4,296 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 5,717 ha Serowe fire, 17 September 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,668 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 2,070 ha Serowe fire, 16 September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,049 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 5,963 ha Serowe fire, 16 September 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,907 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 3,819 ha Serowe fire, 16 September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,785 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 2,509 ha Serowe fire, 14 September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,486 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 2,712 ha Serowe fire, 12 September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,708 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 3,398 ha Serowe fire, 12 September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,394 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 24,255 ha Serowe fire, 11 September 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 24,011 ha in total · 9 days
  17. 2,956 ha Serowe fire, 8 September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,950 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 3,963 ha Serowe fire, 6 September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,964 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 10,943 ha Serowe fire, 5 September 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 10,919 ha in total · 8 days
  20. 3,150 ha Serowe fire, August 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,138 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 2,400 ha Serowe fire, 19 September 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,392 ha in total · 1 day
  22. 2,031 ha Serowe fire, 19 September 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,028 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 2,561 ha Serowe fire, 18 September 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,554 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 3,142 ha Serowe fire, 17 September 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,132 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 9,743 ha Serowe fire, 16 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 9,698 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 6,163 ha Lethlakane fire, 14 September 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 16,551 ha in total · 6 days
  27. 2,821 ha Serowe fire, 12 September 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,818 ha in total · 2 days
  28. 4,875 ha Serowe fire, August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,827 ha in total · 4 days
  29. 533 ha Ghanzi fire, 14 August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 6,228 ha in total · 2 days
  30. 670 ha Ghanzi fire, 13 August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 8,999 ha in total · 4 days
  31. 188 ha Ghanzi fire, 23 October 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,854 ha in total · 2 days
  32. 2,933 ha Serowe fire, October 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,932 ha in total · 4 days
  33. 2,462 ha Serowe fire, 29 August 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,456 ha in total · 2 days
  34. 3,008 ha Serowe fire, 28 August 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,002 ha in total · 5 days
  35. 2,842 ha Serowe fire, 28 August 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,836 ha in total · 1 day
  36. 379 ha Ghanzi fire, 29 October 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 3,391 ha in total · 2 days
  37. 215 ha Ghanzi fire, 28 October 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 9,022 ha in total · 4 days
  38. 471 ha Ghanzi fire, 26 October 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,004 ha in total · 2 days
  39. 488 ha Ghanzi fire, 26 October 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 5,792 ha in total · 4 days
  40. 2,265 ha Serowe fire, 22 September 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,262 ha in total · 2 days
  41. 4,196 ha Serowe fire, 17 September 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 4,190 ha in total · 7 days
  42. 3,806 ha Serowe fire, August 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,800 ha in total · 3 days
  43. 6,502 ha Serowe fire, 29 September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,485 ha in total · 5 days
  44. 3,142 ha Serowe fire, 4 September 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,127 ha in total · 4 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/RCMRD (Public Domain). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).